Re: OASPA responds to submission prank in OA journal

[Anna-Lena Johansson <Anna-Lena.Johansson@lub.lu.se>]

Here is a comment from the librarians working with DOAJ:

Journals included in DOAJ are always thoroughly checked by a 
librarian before added to the directory. The reviewing process is 
done according to the definitions and selection criteria of DOAJ

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=about#definitions

One of the requirements is that the journal is quality 
controlled, either by peer-review or editorial control (by at 
least two persons).

DOAJ is an authoritative directory and aims to maintain the high 
standards!

Regards,
Anna-Lena Johansson
on behalf of the DOAJ-team

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To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu 
>From Sandy Thatcher
Date: den 14 juni 2009 23:09

In a reply to this blog, librarian Deborah Malone worries about 
the "contradiction" between Bentham Science's having its journals 
listed in the DOAJ and its not being a member of OASPA. But I was 
not aware that DOAJ upheld or enforced any standards for listing 
journals in the Directory, so is there really any contradiction?

>The Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association (OASPA) has 
>responded to the recent prank involving the submission - and 
>reported acceptance - of a computer-generated paper to The Open 
>Information Science Journal, published by Bentham Science.
>
>As noted in the blog piece, one of the key incentives behind 
>establishing OASPA was a desire to ensure high standards among 
>Open Access publishers.
>
>The blog piece is available at:
>http://oaspa.org/blog/2009/06/11/publishing-ethics-open-access-and-oaspa/
>
>Caroline Sutton, PhD
>Publisher
>Co-Action Publishing
>tel/skype: +46 (0)18 495 1126
>mob: +47 90 69 05 06
>www.co-action.net